København v ZlÃn background
København and ZlÃn are both still watchful for their initial feat in UEFA Europa League Group F, with a Danish champions carrying drawn their opening 3 fixtures.
Previous meetings
• The sides crossed swords for a initial time on matchday 3 in Olomouc, where any bar found a net for a initial time in a organisation to pull 1-1, København defender Peter Ankersen equalising shortly after Dame Diop had given ZlÃn an early lead in a club’s initial assembly with Danish opposition.
• København’s record in 11 games opposite Czech clubs is W3 D3 L5 (W1 D2 L2 in Copenhagen). Their solitary home win came in a 2009/10 UEFA Europa League organisation stage, 1-0 opposite Sparta Praha. The dual matches opposite Czech visitors given afterwards have both finished in defeat.
Form guide
• København’s run of 3 unbroken Group F draws began with a 0-0 stand-off during home to Lokomotiv Moskva on matchday one.
• ZlÃn’s 3-0 detriment during Lokomotiv on matchday dual was their heaviest better in European foe to date.
• Beaten on divided goals by QarabaÄŸ in a UEFA Champions League play-offs, København have unsuccessful to swell in all of their final 3 UEFA Europa League organisation theatre campaigns. They did, however, strech a turn of 16 in final season’s competition, carrying crossed over during a winter from a UEFA Champions League.
• ZlÃn won a Czech Cup for a initial time final season; a Å evci (Cobblers) have not played European football given 2005 and are creation their organisation theatre debut.
Trivia and links
• The tour from Zlin to Copenhagen is around 750km.
• København possess a Czech defender in Michael Lüftner, who played for Teplice (2012–16) and Slavia Praha (2017) in his domestic league.
• FCK’s Slovakian general Ján GreguÅ¡ also has substantial knowledge of Czech football, carrying played for both BanÃk Ostrava (2009-15) and Jablonec (2015-16).
• København’s Federico Santander and ZlÃn’s Jean-David Beauguel were team-mates during Toulouse in 2010/11 – yet a latter was a youth-team actor during a time.
The coaches
• StÃ¥le Solbakken’s second coaching reign during København began in 2013. He has won 7 Danish titles with FCK, including 5 in his initial spell from 2006–11. The former Norway midfielder has also been in assign of Köln and Wolverhampton Wanderers.
• Bohumil PánÃk started his coaching career with ZlÃn in 2000, and returned to a bar in 2014, his adventures in between including spells with Lech PoznaÅ„ and PogoÅ„ Szczecin in Poland. He guided ZlÃn suddenly to Czech Cup excellence in 2016/17.